New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson was a Clinton sycophant and Slick Willie and Hillary took care of him in exchange for his ability to deliver the Hispanic vote. Well when Obama took the lead in the primaries and the liberal media was kissing his ass, ol' Gov. Billy saw the hand writing on the pueblo wall. He promptly knifed the Clinton's in the back and jumped over to The Messiah's bandwagon. We were never sure what kind of pay off Obama promised him, but suspected it was at least a cabinet position. Mean while Slick Willie and Hillary publicly expressed their disappointment and privately prayed that Richardson would get run over by a speeding taco cart.

So Obama wins and, sure enough, Richardson gets his payoff. Secretary of Commerce in The Messiah's cabinet. But then some one fucks up big time. Richardson gets nailed in a corruption investigation and Obama's press corps doesn't get it covered up. Seems a California based company just happened to be awarded a bunch of business in New Mexico after kicking back some major bucks to Richardson's campaign coffers. So now, to keep The Messiah from getting splashed again, ala Blago in Chicago, Richardson is told he has to fall on his sword. Richardson withdraws from the Obama cabinet and will devote the rest of his life (ala O.J.) to finding the guilty parties and proving his innocence. Mean while Slick Willie and Hillary are doing shots of tequila and laughing their asses off.

Remind me again, what does the "Blago scandal" have to do with Obama? On Jan 4 2009 7:19 PM, Irish Mike wrote:

> New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson was a Clinton sycophant and Slick Willie and > Hillary took care of him in exchange for his ability to deliver the Hispanic > vote. Well when Obama took the lead in the primaries and the liberal media > was kissing his ass, ol' Gov. Billy saw the hand writing on the pueblo wall. > He promptly knifed the Clinton's in the back and jumped over to The > Messiah's bandwagon. We were never sure what kind of pay off Obama promised > him, but suspected it was at least a cabinet position. Mean while Slick > Willie and Hillary publicly expressed their disappointment and privately > prayed that Richardson would get run over by a speeding taco cart. > > So Obama wins and, sure enough, Richardson gets his payoff. Secretary of > Commerce in The Messiah's cabinet. But then some one fucks up big time. > Richardson gets nailed in a corruption investigation and Obama's press corps > doesn't get it covered up. Seems a California based company just happened > to be awarded a bunch of business in New Mexico after kicking back some > major bucks to Richardson's campaign coffers. So now, to keep The Messiah > from getting splashed again, ala Blago in Chicago, Richardson is told he has > to fall on his sword. Richardson withdraws from the Obama cabinet and will > devote the rest of his life (ala O.J.) to finding the guilty parties and > proving his innocence. Mean while Slick Willie and Hillary are doing shots > of tequila and laughing their asses off. > > Rezko scandal. Blago scandal. Richardson scandal. Yep, this is change we > can believe in. > > Irish Mike > > Proud to be one of the 55,000,000+ Americans who did not vote for your > messiah.

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"Irish Mike" <mjostar@ameritech.net > wrote in message news:gmc8l.8182$hc1.4812@flpi150.ffdc.sbc.com... > New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson was a Clinton sycophant and Slick Willie > and Hillary took care of him in exchange for his ability to deliver the > Hispanic vote. Well when Obama took the lead in the primaries and the > liberal media was kissing his ass, ol' Gov. Billy saw the hand writing on > the pueblo wall. He promptly knifed the Clinton's in the back and jumped > over to The Messiah's bandwagon. We were never sure what kind of pay off > Obama promised him, but suspected it was at least a cabinet position. > Mean while Slick Willie and Hillary publicly expressed their > disappointment and privately prayed that Richardson would get run over by > a speeding taco cart. > > So Obama wins and, sure enough, Richardson gets his payoff. Secretary of > Commerce in The Messiah's cabinet. But then some one fucks up big time. > Richardson gets nailed in a corruption investigation and Obama's press > corps doesn't get it covered up. Seems a California based company just > happened to be awarded a bunch of business in New Mexico after kicking > back some major bucks to Richardson's campaign coffers. So now, to keep > The Messiah from getting splashed again, ala Blago in Chicago, Richardson > is told he has to fall on his sword. Richardson withdraws from the Obama > cabinet and will devote the rest of his life (ala O.J.) to finding the > guilty parties and proving his innocence. Mean while Slick Willie and > Hillary are doing shots of tequila and laughing their asses off. > > Rezko scandal. Blago scandal. Richardson scandal. Yep, this is change > we can believe in. > > Irish Mike

I gotta tell you Mike. I just read the story on ABCnews and it wasn't nearly as colorful as you tell it.

> "Irish Mike" <mjostar@ameritech.net> wrote in message > news:gmc8l.8182$hc1.4812@flpi150.ffdc.sbc.com... > > New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson was a Clinton sycophant and Slick Willie > > and Hillary took care of him in exchange for his ability to deliver the > > Hispanic vote. Well when Obama took the lead in the primaries and the > > liberal media was kissing his ass, ol' Gov. Billy saw the hand writing on > > the pueblo wall. He promptly knifed the Clinton's in the back and jumped > > over to The Messiah's bandwagon. We were never sure what kind of pay off > > Obama promised him, but suspected it was at least a cabinet position. > > Mean while Slick Willie and Hillary publicly expressed their > > disappointment and privately prayed that Richardson would get run over by > > a speeding taco cart. > > > > So Obama wins and, sure enough, Richardson gets his payoff. Secretary of > > Commerce in The Messiah's cabinet. But then some one fucks up big time. > > Richardson gets nailed in a corruption investigation and Obama's press > > corps doesn't get it covered up. Seems a California based company just > > happened to be awarded a bunch of business in New Mexico after kicking > > back some major bucks to Richardson's campaign coffers. So now, to keep > > The Messiah from getting splashed again, ala Blago in Chicago, Richardson > > is told he has to fall on his sword. Richardson withdraws from the Obama > > cabinet and will devote the rest of his life (ala O.J.) to finding the > > guilty parties and proving his innocence. Mean while Slick Willie and > > Hillary are doing shots of tequila and laughing their asses off. > > > > Rezko scandal. Blago scandal. Richardson scandal. Yep, this is change > > we can believe in. > > > > Irish Mike > > I gotta tell you Mike. I just read the story on ABCnews and it wasn't > nearly as colorful as you tell it.

Mike never bothers to clutter up a good story with facts or anything silly like that !!

Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. Voltaire

WASHINGTON =97 The global financial system was teetering on the edge of collapse when President Bush and his economics team huddled in the Roosevelt Room of the White House for a briefing that, in the words of one participant, =93scared the hell out of everybody.=94

It was Sept. 18. Lehman Brothers had just gone belly-up, overwhelmed by toxic mortgages. Bank of America had swallowed Merrill Lynch in a hastily arranged sale. Two days earlier, Mr. Bush had agreed to pump $85 billion into the failing insurance giant American International Group.

The president listened as Ben S. Bernanke, chairman of the Federal Reserve, laid out the latest terrifying news: The credit markets, gripped by panic, had frozen overnight, and banks were refusing to lend money.

Then his Treasury secretary, Henry M. Paulson Jr., told him that to stave off disaster, he would have to sign off on the biggest government bailout in history.

Mr. Bush, according to several people in the room, paused for a single, stunned moment to take it all in.

=93How,=94 he wondered aloud, =93did we get here?=94

Eight years after arriving in Washington vowing to spread the dream of homeownership, Mr. Bush is leaving office, as he himself said recently, =93faced with the prospect of a global meltdown=94 with roots in the housing sector he so ardently championed.

There are plenty of culprits, like lenders who peddled easy credit, consumers who took on mortgages they could not afford and Wall Street chieftains who loaded up on mortgage-backed securities without regard to the risk.

But the story of how we got here is partly one of Mr. Bush=92s own making, according to a review of his tenure that included interviews with dozens of current and former administration officials.

From his earliest days in office, Mr. Bush paired his belief that Americans do best when they own their own home with his conviction that markets do best when let alone.

He pushed hard to expand homeownership, especially among minorities, an initiative that dovetailed with his ambition to expand the Republican tent =97 and with the business interests of some of his biggest donors. But his housing policies and hands-off approach to regulation encouraged lax lending standards.

Mr. Bush did foresee the danger posed by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the government-sponsored mortgage finance giants. The president spent years pushing a recalcitrant Congress to toughen regulation of the companies, but was unwilling to compromise when his former Treasury secretary wanted to cut a deal. And the regulator Mr. Bush chose to oversee them =97 an old prep school buddy =97 pronounced the companies sound even as they headed toward insolvency.

As early as 2006, top advisers to Mr. Bush dismissed warnings from people inside and outside the White House that housing prices were inflated and that a foreclosure crisis was looming. And when the economy deteriorated, Mr. Bush and his team misdiagnosed the reasons and scope of the downturn; as recently as February, for example, Mr. Bush was still calling it a =93rough patch.=94

The result was a series of piecemeal policy prescriptions that lagged behind the escalating crisis.

=93There is no question we did not recognize the severity of the problems,=94 said Al Hubbard, Mr. Bush=92s former chief economics adviser, who left the White House in December 2007. =93Had we, we would have attacked them.=94

Looking back, Keith B. Hennessey, Mr. Bush=92s current chief economics adviser, says he and his colleagues did the best they could =93with the information we had at the time.=94 But Mr. Hennessey did say he regretted that the administration did not pay more heed to the dangers of easy lending practices. And both Mr. Paulson and his predecessor, John W. Snow, say the housing push went too far.

=93The Bush administration took a lot of pride that homeownership had reached historic highs,=94 Mr. Snow said in an interview. =93But what we forgot in the process was that it has to be done in the context of people being able to afford their house. We now realize there was a high cost.=94

For much of the Bush presidency, the White House was preoccupied by terrorism and war; on the economic front, its pressing concerns were cutting taxes and privatizing Social Security. The housing market was a bright spot: ever-rising home values kept the economy humming, as owners drew down on their equity to buy consumer goods and pack their children off to college.

Lawrence B. Lindsey, Mr. Bush=92s first chief economics adviser, said there was little impetus to raise alarms about the proliferation of easy credit that was helping Mr. Bush meet housing goals.

=93No one wanted to stop that bubble,=94 Mr. Lindsey said. =93It would have conflicted with the president=92s own policies.=94

1 2 3 4 5 6 Next Page =BB WASHINGTON =97 The global financial system was teetering on the edge of collapse when President Bush and his economics team huddled in the Roosevelt Room of the White House for a briefing that, in the words of one participant, =93scared the hell out of everybody.=94

It was Sept. 18. Lehman Brothers had just gone belly-up, overwhelmed by toxic mortgages. Bank of America had swallowed Merrill Lynch in a hastily arranged sale. Two days earlier, Mr. Bush had agreed to pump $85 billion into the failing insurance giant American International Group.

The president listened as Ben S. Bernanke, chairman of the Federal Reserve, laid out the latest terrifying news: The credit markets, gripped by panic, had frozen overnight, and banks were refusing to lend money.

Then his Treasury secretary, Henry M. Paulson Jr., told him that to stave off disaster, he would have to sign off on the biggest government bailout in history.

Mr. Bush, according to several people in the room, paused for a single, stunned moment to take it all in.

=93How,=94 he wondered aloud, =93did we get here?=94

Eight years after arriving in Washington vowing to spread the dream of homeownership, Mr. Bush is leaving office, as he himself said recently, =93faced with the prospect of a global meltdown=94 with roots in the housing sector he so ardently championed.

There are plenty of culprits, like lenders who peddled easy credit, consumers who took on mortgages they could not afford and Wall Street chieftains who loaded up on mortgage-backed securities without regard to the risk.

But the story of how we got here is partly one of Mr. Bush=92s own making, according to a review of his tenure that included interviews with dozens of current and former administration officials.

From his earliest days in office, Mr. Bush paired his belief that Americans do best when they own their own home with his conviction that markets do best when let alone.

He pushed hard to expand homeownership, especially among minorities, an initiative that dovetailed with his ambition to expand the Republican tent =97 and with the business interests of some of his biggest donors. But his housing policies and hands-off approach to regulation encouraged lax lending standards.

Mr. Bush did foresee the danger posed by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the government-sponsored mortgage finance giants. The president spent years pushing a recalcitrant Congress to toughen regulation of the companies, but was unwilling to compromise when his former Treasury secretary wanted to cut a deal. And the regulator Mr. Bush chose to oversee them =97 an old prep school buddy =97 pronounced the companies sound even as they headed toward insolvency.

As early as 2006, top advisers to Mr. Bush dismissed warnings from people inside and outside the White House that housing prices were inflated and that a foreclosure crisis was looming. And when the economy deteriorated, Mr. Bush and his team misdiagnosed the reasons and scope of the downturn; as recently as February, for example, Mr. Bush was still calling it a =93rough patch.=94

The result was a series of piecemeal policy prescriptions that lagged behind the escalating crisis.

=93There is no question we did not recognize the severity of the problems,=94 said Al Hubbard, Mr. Bush=92s former chief economics adviser, who left the White House in December 2007. =93Had we, we would have attacked them.=94

Looking back, Keith B. Hennessey, Mr. Bush=92s current chief economics adviser, says he and his colleagues did the best they could =93with the information we had at the time.=94 But Mr. Hennessey did say he regretted that the administration did not pay more heed to the dangers of easy lending practices. And both Mr. Paulson and his predecessor, John W. Snow, say the housing push went too far.

=93The Bush administration took a lot of pride that homeownership had reached historic highs,=94 Mr. Snow said in an interview. =93But what we forgot in the process was that it has to be done in the context of people being able to afford their house. We now realize there was a high cost.=94

For much of the Bush presidency, the White House was preoccupied by terrorism and war; on the economic front, its pressing concerns were cutting taxes and privatizing Social Security. The housing market was a bright spot: ever-rising home values kept the economy humming, as owners drew down on their equity to buy consumer goods and pack their children off to college.

Lawrence B. Lindsey, Mr. Bush=92s first chief economics adviser, said there was little impetus to raise alarms about the proliferation of easy credit that was helping Mr. Bush meet housing goals.

=93No one wanted to stop that bubble,=94 Mr. Lindsey said. =93It would have conflicted with the president=92s own policies.=94

1 2 3 4 5 6 Next Page =BB Kitty Bennett contributed reporting.

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kerry by himself $1.8 million being a pussy sucking off the old lady worth an estimated $1 billion

"CheckRazor" <Luv2skibumps_222@hotmail.com > wrote in message news:0d5c4746-1910-468d-b980-33d51142b95b@a26g2000prf.googlegroups.com... > You're spinnng out of control, Irish Mike. You are making yourself and > your party look dumber than you actually are.

Harder to look dumber than Rezko, Blago, and Richardson. > > It's time for you and the other rednecks/Jesus freaks to go away and > re-group. Your leaders, the super-wealthy

You mean like multi-multi millionaires the Clintons, Gores and Kerrys? '

have led you down a slippery > slope and now, geewhiz we're almost in a fucking depression.

You might want to check out where the subprime mortgage crisis started. That would be your fellow liberal Democrats and their entitlement policies. Not to mention the fact that the Democrats have chaired and controlled all of the congressional banking and finance committees for the last two years. Or that Obama's financial advisor made $90+ million while he ran F-MAE and F-MAC in to the ground.

> Great Job. Keep listeneing to Rush Limbaugh and be sure to report back > everything he says.

Great Job. Keep listening to Chris Matthews, Keith Olbermann and the ladies of "The View" and be sure to report back everything they say.

"CheckRazor" <Luv2skibumps_222@hotmail.com > wrote in message news:c5f15798-cf04-4f4e-abc7-4d2c63e9bffb@g39g2000pri.googlegroups.com... >I see the Official Dumbass Redneck of RGP is on another drinking > binge. He even gets called out by Ann "Susan" Coulter, and yet he > still keeps spewing nonsense. > > PARTY ON, Mike.

What bucko? You thought every Obama story was going to get white-washed (pun intended) by Chris Matthews and Oprah? Richardson got his corrupt ass nailed and it got reported. What bucko? You thought Obama was going to stand by Rezko, Blago and Richardson? Tell Jeremiah Wright and Obama's "typical white person" granny to move over and make some more room under that bus.

"Susan" <sdbratt48@netscape.net > wrote in message news:FEc8l.70724$an4.1509@newsfe08.iad... > > "Irish Mike" <mjostar@ameritech.net> wrote in message > news:gmc8l.8182$hc1.4812@flpi150.ffdc.sbc.com... >> New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson was a Clinton sycophant and Slick Willie >> and Hillary took care of him in exchange for his ability to deliver the >> Hispanic vote. Well when Obama took the lead in the primaries and the >> liberal media was kissing his ass, ol' Gov. Billy saw the hand writing on >> the pueblo wall. He promptly knifed the Clinton's in the back and jumped >> over to The Messiah's bandwagon. We were never sure what kind of pay off >> Obama promised him, but suspected it was at least a cabinet position. >> Mean while Slick Willie and Hillary publicly expressed their >> disappointment and privately prayed that Richardson would get run over by >> a speeding taco cart. >> >> So Obama wins and, sure enough, Richardson gets his payoff. Secretary of >> Commerce in The Messiah's cabinet. But then some one fucks up big time. >> Richardson gets nailed in a corruption investigation and Obama's press >> corps doesn't get it covered up. Seems a California based company just >> happened to be awarded a bunch of business in New Mexico after kicking >> back some major bucks to Richardson's campaign coffers. So now, to keep >> The Messiah from getting splashed again, ala Blago in Chicago, Richardson >> is told he has to fall on his sword. Richardson withdraws from the Obama >> cabinet and will devote the rest of his life (ala O.J.) to finding the >> guilty parties and proving his innocence. Mean while Slick Willie and >> Hillary are doing shots of tequila and laughing their asses off. >> >> Rezko scandal. Blago scandal. Richardson scandal. Yep, this is change >> we can believe in. >> >> Irish Mike > > I gotta tell you Mike. I just read the story on ABCnews and it wasn't > nearly as colorful as you tell it.

Not surprising at all lass given the filtering by the politically correct pro-Obama press corps. Hell, if you watched Chris Matthews and MSNBC, Obama and Richardson never even met each other. But not to worry, I hear Obama and his staff are going to do another investigation of themselves, by themselves. Doubtless the result will be the same as when they investigated themselves in the Blago scandal. They've determined that they didn't do nothin' and ain't guilty of nothin'.

Is that lame response the best you can do jacks? You ain't gonna keep your Obama ass-kisser card for long if it is. You need to take a refresher class in "I-sat-in-those-pews-for-twenty-years-and-never-heard-Jeremiah-Wright-make-a-racist-or-anti-American-comment". Now that is a lie worthy of a spot in The Messiah's kool aid bucket. You just have to practice saying it with a straight face.